My attempts at learning an entirely new system of magic without any outside assistance of prior knowledge is going surprisingly well. Actually controlling the energy is easy, figuring out how to make it do something isn’t as easy. Still, being able to control it so well means that I can try again and again much faster than most people would be able to. There are only so many possibilities that I can try that might accomplish what I want, that number is impossibly high, but it is a fixed number.
As for the math lesson I agreed to, it was rather boring. I did learn a bit in the beginning but after that lost interest. I can see the basics being useful, but I already know the basics, beyond that it seems like it only really gets useful again when you take it to the extreme.
When I said as much it started a conversation about the great and powerful people in the world. All of them have one of two things, the first and least common is remembering many past lives, they have had the time to figure out the depths of magic or whatever else they were interested in. The second group are those that have specialized into one idea, like how Willow has her lightning, Talus has her fire, and Tiddol has the various tools that she makes.
It was an interesting conversation, much more interesting than what we were talking about before. It also got me thinking, I should focus my time spent studying solar energy on what I already know how to do with mana. Namely, plant manipulation and healing. Healing will be a bit difficult because I can’t exactly bring people into the Solar Energy room without killing them and myself and outside of it I don’t have nearly as much access to Solar Energy.
I’m going to need to perfect the sunlight producing plant that I still need to name. I need to be able to passively produce enough Solar Energy for regular use if I am to get good at using it, the Solar Energy is amazing for training, but useless for regular use. The sunlight plant, sunflower? Is what I am going to focus on next.
Other than that a couple of things happened. I found the book the Origin gave to Willow today, she seems to have left it behind. I also found a tiny mushroom that grows in the bodies of tiny carapaced creatures and seems to control their bodies. I don’t see myself getting much use out of it, but it is still something.
Anyway, Good Night Diary.